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the Body yet without a diftin<9: prccepdon of the organs. 
Fig. VI. (hews a bigger Egg5 which O. KerkrwgAxd oiptn 
a fortnight after conceptioD^ fiodiogin it thcfic particulars i 
A. a little Secondine, | D. the Navel- firing, by Tt>hich the 
JS, B. B, B. the memhrane^CO'Childis fafl'riedto the Secondirie. 
rion, divided in four places. | E. a Child of i^, days after Concep- 
C. C C. C the membrane^ Am- tionjn which the fice begins to appear^ 
Rios, divided fo too, ^together rfith the principal parts of the 
[Body, 
F/g. VII. repre(ents the Sceleton of an Infant, found by the 
fame in one of thefe Eggs three weeks after Conception. 
fig, Vni.exhibits the Sceleton of an other Child, found alfo 
by him in an Egg, a moueth after Conception. 
Fig, IK» repreftnts Sceleton q( zlu Embryon ^ found by 
him in an Egg fix weeks after Conception. 
Though this Opinion { faith Kerh^ingiui) about the firft for- 
mation ofMan in an Egg, as that of all Fowl, is not common, 
yet 'tis true; and if any find it difficult to believe, hemaycaft 
his Eyes upon Fig. IK where he will fee ofthofe Eggsreprefenc» 
ed after the life^as I have found them my felf in the body of 
many Women open'd by me* 
Thefe Eggs are to be met with, not only in the tefticlesof 
Women married 3 butalfoin thole of Maids, even as young 
Hens will lay Eggs without any commerce with a Cock. 
ThcfeEggs are of thebignefs of a pea, and they contain a 
^[lutinous liquor, which will behardn'd by the fire, juft as the 
White and Yolk in other Egg$^ The taftof them is flat and 
unpleafant enough 5 they are inverted with one or two fine 
skins, which ftrech themfelves a little while after the Eggs 
are fallen into theWomb,and change into two membranes^Gall- 
Amnios and Chorion And as thefe two membranes are alwaies 
found afterwards, enwrapping the Child 3 fo'tis very proba- 
ble, that the Eggs of Women are alfo cover'd with two skins 
from their beginning^though by reafon of their finenefs I could 
not diftinftly fee them. 
It feems, that Fallopius hath feen thefe Eggs before me 3 as 
appears in his Anatom. Ohfervations. And as to their 
Ufe they have in Generation, it feemseafietobedetermioed, • 
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